Robert Dunne points out that the working classes are not depicted favorably in Hay's novel, but as "stupid and ill-bred, at the best loyal servants to the gentry and at the worst overly ambitious and a threat to the welfare of Buffland".
Of course, fillers that pad out the schedule deserve to go, but also under threat is ambitious high-end filmmaking that explores the complex world around us.
It is not even new that he turns his attention from old-technology nuclear threats to new-technology dangers of genetic engineering, or turns from imaginings of ecological disaster to the threat of ambitious, hyper-intelligent robots.
Beijing understandably sees a threat in an ambitious American push to create a missile shield that would exclude it while covering Japan and Taiwan.
But these two teams are also under threat from the ambitious Williams team, which after losing several sponsors went public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange over the winter and has high ambitions for its new car.
It may prove impossible to find another such figure capable of leading, yet not personally ambitious and so not a threat to the Gandhis' dominance over the Congress party.(Picture credit: AFP).
Despite facing the shared threat of an ambitious and powerful militant group -- one that could be at the Turkish border with a few more advances, and that already has won sympathizers and possibly placed fighters deep within the heart of that country -- the U.S. and Turkey may be at the most significant dip in relations since Turkey declined to help in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, analysts say.
However, BBC world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge said: "Sustaining and giving practical meaning to an ambitious agenda to counter the jihadist threat across a whole swathe of territory straddling north and sub-Saharan Africa will clearly be a huge challenge".
Nevertheless these ambitious young film-makers pose a significant threat to the primacy of television.
Hyundai Automotive is responding to the new competitive threat posed by G.M. with ambitious expansion plans across East Asia.
